President Joe Biden said he would sign a bill working its way through Congress that would ban US app stores from carrying TikTok unless its Chinese owner divests the popular video-sharing social media platform.
Asked whether he backed the legislation as he left Washington for Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden replied: “If they pass it, I’ll sign it.”
White House aides helped draft the bill, even as Biden’s re-election campaign uses TikTok to try to reach younger voters. The House of Representatives is next week expected to vote on the measure, which would impose a ban unless ByteDance, the app’s Chinese owner, divests the app within six months.